Monday, February 13, 2023

'It's Like Verdun': The Grinding Battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

This might be a very apt description! However, we hope that Ukraine will prevail and ultimately expel the invaders from its territory!

About the horrors and madness of war! Very sad and incomprehensible!

Let the international war crimes tribunal against Putin the Terrible and his accomplices begin immediately, preferably in Nuremberg, Germany! (in absentia or not).

"An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

Men with limbs lost to mines and artillery wounds are pulled from battlefields carved with trenches and scarred by shells in a fight drawing comparisons to infamous battles of World War I.

"It's like Verdun out there," said Ivan, an ambulance driver waiting on a roadside outside the battered industrial city in the eastern Donetsk region.

Like the 1916 fight on the western front in France, the battle for Bakhmut, now in its seventh month, has been long, bloody and futile.

Victory over the city, pounded to ruin, would be merely symbolic as the anniversary of the invasion looms on Feb. 24. ..."

'It's Like Verdun': The Grinding Battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

The battlefield of Verdun: Every inch was hit multiple times by artillery fire


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